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How To Save Time And Reduce Your Investment In Endpoint Security

Trojans, worms and spyware sound like elements straight from a summer blockbuster, but the kind of action/adventure they provide on your PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets make them more like a horror movie.

By deploying effective endpoint security, you can help prevent attacks and keep your users safe from viruses and other malware, such as spear phishing and advanced persistent threats. Today’s state-of-the-art endpoint security has come a long way from its early roots in “antivirus” and has morphed into a complex suite of sophisticated protections against modern threats.

But good protection isn’t free; so, how can you save money, while still protecting your computers? Here’s how to reduce your investment....

Keeping users safe

In an ideal world, users would be perfectly security conscious. These mythical users wouldn’t:

Click on suspicious links.

Open file attachments emailed by criminals pretending to be their friends.

Respond to phishing messages that appear to be from a bank.

Disable software updates because warnings and reboots are annoying.

Disable a security product because it slows down their PC.

Install free software from an untrustworthy developer, because their friend “liked” it on Facebook.

Sadly, our world is less than ideal. Much, much less: A recent report said that 86 percent of U.S. businesses surveyed had lost sensitive data during the previous year.

Allows you to enforce certain policy settings, such as use of USB ports, and prevents users from disabling security features

Doesn’t fight with competing installed products, to allow you to test it safely

How does it reduce your investment?

A modern solution will reduce costs by being integrable, controllable and reliable. That means your operating costs are lower, and you won’t lose money from malware infections that only waste IT workers’ time and squander end-user productivity.

Purchase cost is, of course, a factor. However, in most analyses of total cost of ownership (TCO), operations and end-user productivity losses dwarf all other costs.